John Brown (Kentucky)

John Brown (12 September 1757-29 August 1837) was a member of the US House of Representatives from Virginia's 2nd district from 4 March 1789 to 1 June 1792, preceding Andrew Moore, and a member of the US Senate from Kentucky from 18 June 1792 to 4 March 1805, preceding Buckner Thruston. He was a member of the Democratic-Republican Party.

Biography
John Brown was born in Augusta County, Virginia in 1757, the son of immigrants from Northern Ireland. He served under George Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette during the American Revolutionary War, and he became a lawyer after the war's end. He served in the Virginia State Senate from 1783 to 1788, in the Continental Congress from 1787 to 1788, and in the US House of Representatives from 1789 to 1792. In 1792, he became one of the new state of Kentucky's inaugural US Senators, and he served until 1805. He died in 1837.